I remember living in Iowa, and this Imam Masha Allah would give really good lectures and Kutbahs masha Allah. Great lecture Insha Allah
Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Jumah, ,Iowa,Proper Covering,That's Not Hijab
Insha Allah This post will be about all four topics Insha Allah.
~Jumah~
I went to Jumah today alhumdulilah very nice kutbah masha Allah, the kutbah today was about salat and about performing salat correctly and so forth. I'm not too sure if the Imam mentioned proper covering for men and women because at some point during the kutbah I had to get up and take lil mommah potty. So any who after jumah today one of the sister stood up and made and announcement about sisters not covering correctly for prayer some how I miss that part too because I had gone to put lil mommah shoes on then this sister came out too the shoe area greeted me,and was saying how nervous she was,,,,, and i'm like why? She says because of the comment I just made about sisters not covering correctly then I said oh ok,,,,,,,,, then i'm like wait did I miss that too,,, what comment? Then she explained, and I told her that's good masha Allah unfortunately the ways you see these sisters covering it has to do with their culture. From my own personal experience (being married to an West African man) it's hard to advice some sisters specialy when it comes to it conflicting with their culture of dress. As We're walking to our cars another sister comes up to us and starts talking to us about the comment this sister just made and that We really need to do a talk or have a discussion about proper covering specially during salat. I TOTALY agree.
~~~~~~~Iowa~~~~~~ Growing in my deen understanding proper covering
~~~~~ Proper Covering ~~~~~~ What does it mean to you ?
I remember one morning on my way to work, I was dropping my son off at school an islamic school that was also the masjid, Usually when i go, there is no one there except the maintanace man or women getting school read for the day.This one perticular morning The Imam was there and the layout of this masjid is when you walk in, the imams office/principle office is the first door you see and usually it's closed because he is usually not there when I come because I was dropping my son off early so I could get to work on time. So this one morning I drop him off and I open the door and the imams door is open and he is sitting there and he looked at me in a Very disapointed way so I just thought maybe he is having a not so good morning and was thinking about something at that perticular time and I just happen to see the expression on his face. So I give him the greeting then I walk my son to his class room. I go to leave, and Imam call me into his office, I knew it wasn't something good at this point because he still has that same dissapointing look on his face,.First thing he ask me was, What does Proper hijab and covering mean to YOU? My response scarf,long sleeves, long pants or long skirt,or jilbab. After me saying that he hands me this paper and suggest I read it and As Salaamu Alaikum <-my clue to leave now lol foreal thats all he said Mind you I was on my ways to work so I was wearing some casual pants and a suit jacket and hijab to match and some type of heels or dress shoes. When I left my home that morning I considered my self covered, until the imam asked me that question. That whole day I felt soooooo self conscious about what I had on that day subhanAllah . After reading this article along with a few others, I figure out that I was not covering properly at all subhanAllah . My clothes were in fact not loose enough and the jilbabs I was wearing back then were tooo tight as well subhanAllah May Allah forgive me of my shortcoming Ameen.
How I dressed before and thought was covering (NOTE THIS IS NOT ME) this is how I was dressed that day
How I cover now of course with niqab (NOTE THIS TOO IS NOT ME ) just wanted to show MY understanding of coverning then and now alhumdulilah.
1) Women must not dress so as to appear as men. "Ibn Abbas narrated: 'The Prophet (Sallalahu alayhi wasalaam) cursed the men who appear like women and the women who appear like men.'" (Bukhari)
(2) Women should not dress in a way similar to the unbelievers.
The Conditions for the Proper Hijaab
AUTHOR: Shaikh Zayd bin Muhammad Al-Madkhalee
SOURCE: His treatise "Wujoob Sitr-il-Wajhi wal-Kafayn"
PRODUCED BY: Al-Ibaanah.com
Second: An explanation of the conditions required for the Hijaab to fulfill its religious objective. Below is a list of the Hijaab’s necessary conditions:
1. The Hijaab must cover a woman’s entire body, based on Allaah’s statement: “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the believing women to cast their jalaabeeb over themselves (i.e. their bodies).” [33:59] You have already come to know from what we have written previously that the jilbaab is a long garment that is ample enough to cover the entire body and that the meaning of the word idnaa (to cast) is “to lower” and “to let down” as was stated previously.
2. The garment must be thick, not thin and transparent. This is since the objective of the Hijaab, which is to veil a woman’s entire body and her hidden and apparent adornment, cannot be achieved with a thin garment. Therefore, that which a great amount of covered women wear today, which they call the ‘abaa’ah (cloak) or the malaa’ah (mantle), but which are transparent and describe the skin, such that the onlooker can see what lies beneath the garment, is not considered a legitimate Hijaab since it only brings about an increase in her ability to entice (men) with her attractive and alluring features. And yet they only wear it so that it could be said: “They are wearing Hijaab.” So we seek Allaah’s refuge from deception, the harm of which only falls on those who love and are infatuated with it.
3. The Hijaab must not be a source of decoration in itself, such as by it being colorful and flashy, causing eyes to turn towards it and hearts to be diseased (with temptation). We explained previously the meaning of Allaah’s saying: "And (tell the believing women) not to display their zeenah (adornment) except for that which is apparent from it.” [24:31] So since it is this way, then every Hijaab that does not prevent the display of one’s adornment in front of male-strangers, is not a valid Hijaab.
4. It must be ample and loose, since a tight garment outlines the body and reveals it in front of male strangers. So it goes against the objective that is sought after from the obligation of Hijaab. Furthermore, from the various types of tight clothes is that which is called pants, since it does not properly cover what it goes over. On top of that, it describes and outlines the body, as well as resembling the dress of men, and the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) cursed: “The man who wears a woman’s garment and the woman who wears a man’s garment.” [Reported by Abu Dawood and An-Nasaa’ee]
5. It is also required for the Hijaab not to be perfumed, since fragrances cause men’s desires to be incited and for them to be tempted, against their wills. So a woman who does this carries the sin of her action as well as the sin of those who respond to her active call to this type of fornication. It is reported in a hadeeth collected by the Sunan compilers and others that the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Indeed, when a woman perfumes herself and then passes by a gathering, she is such and such” – meaning a fornicator. And in another narration, he (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Verily, when a woman perfumes herself and then passes by a group of people such that they can smell her scent, she is a fornicator.”
These, O Muslim brothers and sisters, are the conditions required for the Hijaab to achieve its intended objective. So we must fear Allaah and be dutiful to Him by obeying what He has commanded and abstaining from what He has forbidden, and by following His Messenger (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), for indeed this brings success in both this life and the next
~~~~~~~~~~~That's Not Hijab~~~~~~~~~~~
~Jumah~
I went to Jumah today alhumdulilah very nice kutbah masha Allah, the kutbah today was about salat and about performing salat correctly and so forth. I'm not too sure if the Imam mentioned proper covering for men and women because at some point during the kutbah I had to get up and take lil mommah potty. So any who after jumah today one of the sister stood up and made and announcement about sisters not covering correctly for prayer some how I miss that part too because I had gone to put lil mommah shoes on then this sister came out too the shoe area greeted me,and was saying how nervous she was,,,,, and i'm like why? She says because of the comment I just made about sisters not covering correctly then I said oh ok,,,,,,,,, then i'm like wait did I miss that too,,, what comment? Then she explained, and I told her that's good masha Allah unfortunately the ways you see these sisters covering it has to do with their culture. From my own personal experience (being married to an West African man) it's hard to advice some sisters specialy when it comes to it conflicting with their culture of dress. As We're walking to our cars another sister comes up to us and starts talking to us about the comment this sister just made and that We really need to do a talk or have a discussion about proper covering specially during salat. I TOTALY agree.
~~~~~~~Iowa~~~~~~ Growing in my deen understanding proper covering
~~~~~ Proper Covering ~~~~~~ What does it mean to you ?
I remember one morning on my way to work, I was dropping my son off at school an islamic school that was also the masjid, Usually when i go, there is no one there except the maintanace man or women getting school read for the day.This one perticular morning The Imam was there and the layout of this masjid is when you walk in, the imams office/principle office is the first door you see and usually it's closed because he is usually not there when I come because I was dropping my son off early so I could get to work on time. So this one morning I drop him off and I open the door and the imams door is open and he is sitting there and he looked at me in a Very disapointed way so I just thought maybe he is having a not so good morning and was thinking about something at that perticular time and I just happen to see the expression on his face. So I give him the greeting then I walk my son to his class room. I go to leave, and Imam call me into his office, I knew it wasn't something good at this point because he still has that same dissapointing look on his face,.First thing he ask me was, What does Proper hijab and covering mean to YOU? My response scarf,long sleeves, long pants or long skirt,or jilbab. After me saying that he hands me this paper and suggest I read it and As Salaamu Alaikum <-my clue to leave now lol foreal thats all he said Mind you I was on my ways to work so I was wearing some casual pants and a suit jacket and hijab to match and some type of heels or dress shoes. When I left my home that morning I considered my self covered, until the imam asked me that question. That whole day I felt soooooo self conscious about what I had on that day subhanAllah . After reading this article along with a few others, I figure out that I was not covering properly at all subhanAllah . My clothes were in fact not loose enough and the jilbabs I was wearing back then were tooo tight as well subhanAllah May Allah forgive me of my shortcoming Ameen.
How I dressed before and thought was covering (NOTE THIS IS NOT ME) this is how I was dressed that day
How I cover now of course with niqab (NOTE THIS TOO IS NOT ME ) just wanted to show MY understanding of coverning then and now alhumdulilah.
1) Women must not dress so as to appear as men. "Ibn Abbas narrated: 'The Prophet (Sallalahu alayhi wasalaam) cursed the men who appear like women and the women who appear like men.'" (Bukhari)
(2) Women should not dress in a way similar to the unbelievers.
The Conditions for the Proper Hijaab
AUTHOR: Shaikh Zayd bin Muhammad Al-Madkhalee
SOURCE: His treatise "Wujoob Sitr-il-Wajhi wal-Kafayn"
PRODUCED BY: Al-Ibaanah.com
Second: An explanation of the conditions required for the Hijaab to fulfill its religious objective. Below is a list of the Hijaab’s necessary conditions:
1. The Hijaab must cover a woman’s entire body, based on Allaah’s statement: “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the believing women to cast their jalaabeeb over themselves (i.e. their bodies).” [33:59] You have already come to know from what we have written previously that the jilbaab is a long garment that is ample enough to cover the entire body and that the meaning of the word idnaa (to cast) is “to lower” and “to let down” as was stated previously.
2. The garment must be thick, not thin and transparent. This is since the objective of the Hijaab, which is to veil a woman’s entire body and her hidden and apparent adornment, cannot be achieved with a thin garment. Therefore, that which a great amount of covered women wear today, which they call the ‘abaa’ah (cloak) or the malaa’ah (mantle), but which are transparent and describe the skin, such that the onlooker can see what lies beneath the garment, is not considered a legitimate Hijaab since it only brings about an increase in her ability to entice (men) with her attractive and alluring features. And yet they only wear it so that it could be said: “They are wearing Hijaab.” So we seek Allaah’s refuge from deception, the harm of which only falls on those who love and are infatuated with it.
3. The Hijaab must not be a source of decoration in itself, such as by it being colorful and flashy, causing eyes to turn towards it and hearts to be diseased (with temptation). We explained previously the meaning of Allaah’s saying: "And (tell the believing women) not to display their zeenah (adornment) except for that which is apparent from it.” [24:31] So since it is this way, then every Hijaab that does not prevent the display of one’s adornment in front of male-strangers, is not a valid Hijaab.
4. It must be ample and loose, since a tight garment outlines the body and reveals it in front of male strangers. So it goes against the objective that is sought after from the obligation of Hijaab. Furthermore, from the various types of tight clothes is that which is called pants, since it does not properly cover what it goes over. On top of that, it describes and outlines the body, as well as resembling the dress of men, and the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) cursed: “The man who wears a woman’s garment and the woman who wears a man’s garment.” [Reported by Abu Dawood and An-Nasaa’ee]
5. It is also required for the Hijaab not to be perfumed, since fragrances cause men’s desires to be incited and for them to be tempted, against their wills. So a woman who does this carries the sin of her action as well as the sin of those who respond to her active call to this type of fornication. It is reported in a hadeeth collected by the Sunan compilers and others that the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Indeed, when a woman perfumes herself and then passes by a gathering, she is such and such” – meaning a fornicator. And in another narration, he (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Verily, when a woman perfumes herself and then passes by a group of people such that they can smell her scent, she is a fornicator.”
These, O Muslim brothers and sisters, are the conditions required for the Hijaab to achieve its intended objective. So we must fear Allaah and be dutiful to Him by obeying what He has commanded and abstaining from what He has forbidden, and by following His Messenger (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), for indeed this brings success in both this life and the next
~~~~~~~~~~~That's Not Hijab~~~~~~~~~~~
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sudanese Dish (Story)
This dish may not be a Sudanese Dish officially, but a sister made this dish one jumah and brought it to the masjid when I lived in Iowa.Alhumdulilah it was So good and I've been making it since then,and calling it my Sudanese dish even though it might not be an actual dish from Sudan Allahu Alim When I moved to Des Moines Iowa from New York I went to my first jumah, It was nice the sister's there were soooooo friendly alhumdulilah I was sorta taken back by it, because they just seemed overly friendly masha Allah.I met the Imam and his wife masha Allah they were a very nice and religious couple. I introduced my self and my two children and explained to them that I was new to Iowa and needed help with furniture masha Allah they were so kind the next day this Pakistani brother Abdullah knocked on my door and brought me a let out couch,a lamp and some end tables he was in school there and was moving to another state so he gave me all of his funiture masha Allah may Allah continue to bless that brother and his family Ameen . It was such a surprise, because the imam and his wife wasn't sure if they new anyone at the time who could help me so anywho I got furniture and my uncle(not muslim)May Allah guide him and the rest of my family Ameen got a house for us and helped me with my bills for a few months until I could get back on my feet.My uncle was sooo surprised about me getting furniture from muslim he hadn't seen that he was sorta thinking I would go to the churches for assistance because he only new of churches at the time so he was surprise that I went to the masjid and was able to get assistance alhumdulilah he definitely saw muslims in a different light. He was very happy that I was able to get help and I was even happier because I was able to get help from the muslims with me having two kids' Mash Allah . Sorry I'm veering off as usual ok so back to jumah lol:) so my children and I were at jumah and like I said the sister's were extremely nice masha Allah they was serving food and chatting with me and was asking me how I came to islam (if I'm married )and if not am I in need of a husband how was it in New York them sister's weren't shy with the questions at all masha Allah. With all the chatting and questions I only took maybe one or two bites of this rice dish one of the sisters gave me but I was thinking in the mist of the questions dang this rice stuff is good lol :) my son was down stairs with the brothers and they had food as well and he ate some of the rice stuff too, when we were on our way home my son asked me what food did you all have upstairs (we always do this specially during Ramadan on the way home we would ask each other what did you eat and what was in it did you like it and so forth ). So on the way home he asked me did y'all have that rice stuff ? I said yeah it was goooooood huh? He goes yeah.Then we started trying to guess what was in it. We knew it had rice,ground beef,and peas,onions but wasn't too sure of the seasoning. That following Sunday the masjid had a family day my kids and I went and a few of the same sister's I met at jumah were there so I asked one of the sister's who made that rice dish we had on jumah? She said oh sister soNso the Sudanese sister right there(this is why I call it Sudanese dish) and pointed to the sisters I asked her how to make it and so here it goes Insha Allah.
~~Ingredients~~
1lb of ground beef,turkey (whatever YOU like)
1or2 onions diced
1or2 medium potatoes diced
1can of sweet peas
2tbls of cumin
1cup water
salt and pepper to taste (notice no maggie) lol
I know my readers are like dang she use maggie in EVERYTHING! except this that is lol:)but you can use maggie in this if you like :)
~~~~~STEPS FOR PREPARATION~~~~~
brown ground beef with onions salt,pepper,drain excess oil when finish add peas and a little bit of the pea juice so the meat doesn't stick and cumin just let cook for about 5 or 10 min not very long and then after that add the potatoes and the water and let it cook down until the potatoes are tender to taste and that's it
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